1906-02-19 THE SEAVSTOPOL MUTINY

The trial of Lieutenant Schmidt and
39 others accused with him of participation in the mutiny at Sevastopol last
November will be held next Tuesday in camera. Counsel for the defence
decided to-day to appear in Court, and claim the right to summon their witnesses
and arrange for a medical examination of the lieutenant, who is in a terrible
condition, having refused to take food for six days because he was deprived of
the visits of his relatives, and is suffering, moreover, from violent
paroxysms. After making quite sure of a refusal counsel for the defence will
retire without useless pleadings, and start for St. Petersburg to lay their
protest before Count Witte and demand the immediate cessation of such an
illegal proceeding as the trial and sentence to death of an insane man.